The Bodmin & Wenford Railway (BWR) has received a welcome visitor to assist with its peak summer timetable – Mid-Hants Railway-based BR ‘2MT’ No. 41312. The Ivatt 2-6-2T is set to spend around three weeks on the friendly Cornish heritage line before returning home to the Watercress Line. Ahead of entering

PLANNED timetable changes on the East Coast Main Line are fuelling growing protests, with councillors and MPs unhappy about the implications for Darlington. LNER is proposing to increase the number of trains calling at Durham, but the price of that will be fewer trains calling at Darlington. LNER said the number

THE operator of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal near Rugby has been fined £6.5 million after being found guilty of negligence over the death of an 11 year-old boy in June 2017. Northampton Crown Court heard that Harrison Ballantyne and some friends entered the terminal to retrieve a football, and while

ALL ScotRail services between Glasgow and Ayr are running normally again this morning, after the line was closed by a destructive fire at Troon station just under two weeks ago. The seat of the blaze on 17 July appears to have been the ticket office on platform 1, where the main

THE government is to be pressed by Buckinghamshire councillors over the suspension of a plan to include Aylesbury in East West Rail by running EWR trains from Claydon Junction, between Bicester and Bletchley, down to Aylesbury. The line exists, and is being used by passenger trains as far as Aylesbury Vale

THE Rail Delivery Group has welcomed a Department for Transport plan to make stations easier to use for less able passengers. The DfT says a 'major audit' of all stations, which was outlined in the Williams-Shapps rail review, has now started, with the intention of seeing what improvements should be made

A NEW report from the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee published today is calling for railway electrification to be speeded up. Its inquiry had concerned batteries and hydrogen as sources of energy, and the resulting report – 'Battery strategy goes flat: net zero target at risk' – warns that

WORK is continuing today in a bid to discover how 43 Manchester Metrolink trams were damaged, forcing their withdrawal from service yesterday. Metrolink operator KAM (KeolisAmey Metrolink) is expecting to run a normal service today, following emergency repairs. It appears that an infrastructure fault damaged the trams, and KAM is continuing to

The Bluebell Railway was one of the first preserved railways in the UK, beginning operations in 1960. It was started by a group of enthusiasts wishing to preserve steam railway operations for posterity. At that time, steam was widespread on Britain’s railways, so the Bluebell was able to secure many historic

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is spearheading a new national campaign to shine a light on the important work that heritage railways in the UK do. The NYMR is collaborating with over 35 other heritage railway organisations for the ‘Love Your Railway’ summer campaign from July 26 to September 5,